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<p>[QUOTE="willieboyd2, post: 5155222, member: 4910"]I found this coin in a CoinStar-type machine reject bin in 2015:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_c01_1946s_altered.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was probably altered with a file to pass as a dime in a vending machine.</p><p>It weighs 2.67 gm, is 19 mm in diameter, and the sides are smooth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had heard of pennies altered this way but had not seen one until now.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2010 President Obama pardoned a former marine who plead guilty to "coin mutilation" in 1963. He and his friends were altering pennies to pass as dimes.</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/03/obama.pardons/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/03/obama.pardons/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/03/obama.pardons/index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="willieboyd2, post: 5155222, member: 4910"]I found this coin in a CoinStar-type machine reject bin in 2015: [IMG]https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_c01_1946s_altered.jpg[/IMG] The coin was probably altered with a file to pass as a dime in a vending machine. It weighs 2.67 gm, is 19 mm in diameter, and the sides are smooth. I had heard of pennies altered this way but had not seen one until now. In 2010 President Obama pardoned a former marine who plead guilty to "coin mutilation" in 1963. He and his friends were altering pennies to pass as dimes. [URL]https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/03/obama.pardons/index.html[/URL] :)[/QUOTE]
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